by KarenD | May 16, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
By Chris Farrell, Next Avenue Contributor Fifty-something Linda Meadows, a volunteer with the AmeriCorps Reading Partners program, is tutoring students at the library of Cherry Hill Elementary in south Baltimore, a low-income, mostly African-American neighborhood. “I...
by KarenD | May 8, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
Even students who perform extremely well on math exams can suffer from anxiety. And the better a student does at math, the more strongly anxiety will drag his or her performance down, new research shows. And the relationship between anxiety and achievement holds true...
by KarenD | May 2, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
We commissioned filmmaker Nic Askew (soulbiographies.com) to make a series of films about connected learning, a new approach to learning he called “courageous” and...
by KarenD | Apr 24, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jean Rhodes Nearly 80 years after its publication, Dale Carnegie’s, How to Win Friends and Influence People, remains one of the best-selling books of all time (30 million copies!). This led me to wonder whether some of the interpersonal skills that Carnegie...
by KarenD | Apr 18, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
The temptation is common, and your intentions are good. Your relationship with your mentee is new. You want to give him the opportunity to experience things he may not get to do very often, if at all. There are so many possibilities: amusement parks, zoos, museums,...
by KarenD | Apr 10, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
Written by David Brooks, New York Times Kathy Fletcher and David Simpson have a son named Santi, who went to Washington, D.C., public schools. Santi had a friend who sometimes went to school hungry. So Santi invited him to occasionally eat and sleep at his house. That...
by KarenD | Apr 3, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
Some days it just seems impossible to wedge one more activity into your schedule. But being a mentor doesn’t necessarily need to become a burden in your life. Being a mentor is about more than going on special outings to movies and amusement parks. It’s about spending...
by KarenD | Jan 23, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
Written by Emily Palmer, New York Times Sitting in his Harlem elementary school cafeteria after the final bell one day last month, Jaylen Williams shifted restlessly as he read a math homework question out loud. “Ms. Parker buys two pounds of cash —” he said, rubbing...
by KarenD | Jan 18, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jeremy Dean Laughter encourages people to open up and this is the secret to how to make friends, a new study finds. People in the study were more likely to disclose something personal about themselves after laughing together, although they didn’t realise it....
